Liu Daxia was very concerned about Xie Qian's plan, but Xie Qian was cunning, even if he took the initiative to discuss things with Liu Daxia, he didn't want Liu Daxia to know how he would deal with it. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Waiting for Liu Daxia to leave, Xie Qian pondered for a long time with a few transcripts, and finally made a reasonable and simple decision, writing the words "rewards and punishments are clear" on these transcripts, and then played them "truthfully".

This is the basic skill of the cabinet scholars, and when it is difficult to determine, they try to write the vote as ambiguously as possible, so that the emperor can either directly send the manuscript back to the cabinet to re-vote, or "consider" it himself, or simply leave it in the middle, and then the cabinet will save the trouble of using his brain.

The emperor and the celebrant often hate this kind of vote the most, Xie Qian knows it, but when it comes to Shen Xi, he can only do so.

Favoritism is not, it is even more undesirable to fall into the well, and caring is chaotic, he can only hand over the headache to others, and at most he will be scolded.

After Xie Qian's "truthful" performance, Emperor Hongzhi really left the music unpublished, obviously waiting for the follow-up news to come.

If Shen Xi really caused a war because he offended the Francophile, it would be good to win, but if the territory and people of the Ming Dynasty had suffered losses, then the credit that Shen Xi had received before would not be enough to compensate for his sins.

Just when some people were unlucky to look at Shenxi, on the nineteenth day of the first month, the documents arrived in the capital quickly.

According to the local report, Shen Xi skillfully maneuvered with the Franc Robot to seize goods and hostages in exchange for three warships of the Franc Machine, which were used to sweep away the bandits along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong after the beginning of the spring.

Accompanying the report was also a letter from the Francophone who expressed his willingness to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

The monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty, who did not even know where the Buddha Machinery Country was, were already rejoicing, thinking that a small country across the ocean had become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and would "pay tribute" to the Ming Dynasty every year in the future.

This is mainly due to the cultural differences between the East and the West, in fact, Almeida only expressed his willingness to pay a certain amount of grain every year as a tax for the right to trade, and did not say anything about paying tribute.

The argument of tribute and submission is nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of the translation.

However, Almeida signed the "alliance under the city", when he learned that the translation of the national letter was biased, he did not object, in his eyes the interests are the first, even if the surface is soft, but as long as you can earn enough profits, even if you suffer a little loss in reputation, it is worth it, after all, Portugal has no knowledge of this, and it is impossible for the Ming to send an envoy to check, so even if it is fooled.

Shen Xi made a lot of contributions this time, not only winning the victory of the bandits, but also maintaining the dignity of the Celestial Empire in terms of diplomacy. Emperor Hongzhi was overjoyed and decided to give Shen Xi a reward, showing that he was meritocracy.

Others say that I reuse Shen Xi because he is the crown prince's official, and I want to show the world now that ambition is not in old age, as long as there is real ability, young officials can also win my favor, and the addition of officials to the knighthood is just around the corner.

In the end, Zhu Youzhi instructed: Shen Xiguan was promoted to the first level, retained as the governor of the three provinces, and served the country.

This comment stumped the bigwigs in the court.

Shen Xi is a Beijing official sent abroad, although he is a local governor, but he is a special order of the imperial court, the main task is to pacify the bandits in the three provinces along the southeast coast, and he is the right deputy of the three products of the imperial history.

According to the official rank of the Beijing official, if the Shen Xi official is promoted to two levels, it will be the right capital of the second grade, but what does it mean to promote the official to one level in the edict now?

If it is according to the specifications of the magistrate, it is a political envoy from the second grade! However, the transfer of political envoys from governor to governor is obviously a demotion, and there has never been such a precedent in the DPRK and China.

Zhu Youzhi just felt that he had made an exception to promote Shen Xi and promoted him from Zhengsanpin to two levels, and it was not easy to arrange it when he returned to the imperial court in the future.

With Shen Xi's age, no matter how great the credit is, the six Shangshu are not something he can touch, and even if Shen Xi is appointed as the squire of the six departments, it is not appropriate.

Although Shen Xi is capable, in the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi, he can only be a temporary official at his current age, such as governors and governors, even if he is transferred to Nanjing to serve as a squire of the six departments.

If you can be a magistrate and a Hanlin official, you can't be an official of the six departments.

No matter how great the merit is, the age is not enough, and the seniority is not in the turn, either you will be the governor in the local area, or you will come back to continue to study and give lectures, where there are any errands, such as the nine sides need to manage the military salary, or the Caoyun needs someone to clean up and dispatch, I will send you, otherwise you will stay in the capital and wait honestly, and gradually accumulate qualifications......

This promotion path is very similar to Liu Daxia's promotion.

In the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi in the past, Liu Daxia was a screw, and where there was a hole, there was Liu Daxia. It's just that Shen Xi is younger and more energetic than Liu Daxia, and he is deeply appreciated by Emperor Hongzhi, because Shen Xi is the auxiliary minister trained by Emperor Hongzhi for his son.

There are so many old guys, who are a round older than me, and when I return to old age in a hundred years, you will enter the loess early, and your grandchildren are older than the prince's age, how can I expect you?

Looking at Shen Xi again, after winning the champion and making so many contributions, he is only seventeen years old now, four years older than my son, and he can be my son's humerus minister in the future.

The more Zhu Youzhu felt that his health was not as good as before, the more he wanted to promote young and promising officials in the DPRK, and even his two brothers-in-law were also on his promotion list.

Because there was no precedent for Zhu Youji's "official promotion to the next level", Ma Wensheng and others finally drafted it at their discretion, and officially changed the title of "Coastal Governor of the Three Provinces" of Shenxi to "Military Affairs Promotion of the Three Provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi".

In this way, Shen Xi, a courtier of the third rank, actually has more authority than the governor of Liangguang of the second rank. You must know that a governor of Zhengerpin and Liangguang is only responsible for the military and political affairs of Guangdong and Guizhou provinces, but Shenxi, the military affairs of the three provinces, can mobilize the troops of the three provinces of Guangdong and Fujian.

As soon as the officials announced Shen Xi's official position and authority, there was an uproar in the capital.

A third-grade superintendent already has greater authority than the second-rank feudal official, so doesn't that mean that Shen Xi's current authority is equivalent to that of a first-rank official?

Although the imperial court had a lot of discussions about this, fortunately, Shen Xi was only in charge of the military and political affairs of the three southeastern provinces, and in the eyes of the Beijing officials, no matter how big the local officials were, they would be insignificant, otherwise there would be no rule that the Beijing officials were transferred abroad and directly promoted to three to five levels.

In the eyes of others, Shen Xi, the third-rank governor, is equal to the right concubine of the fifth rank of Zhan Shifu before him, although a seventeen-year-old right-handed concubine of the fifth grade is already very excessive, but after all, he is only a fifth-grade official, so there is nothing to worry about.

But in any case, Shen Xi officially got the military and political power of the three southeastern provinces, and after that, he was no longer a manager, but could take charge of local administration and military affairs, and all the yamen in the three provinces officially became his subordinate units, and he could give orders at will.

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When the imperial court ordered Shen Xi to be "promoted to one level", Shen Xi was still in the city of Guangzhou. The imperial edict was issued in the second half of the first month, and even if the urgent documents were fast, they would not reach the Guangzhou government until mid-February, and if the road was delayed any longer, Shen Xi might have already led his troops north to fight the Japanese invaders, and he did not even know the news of his promotion.

However, Shen Xi's current power was not obtained by the emperor after the emperor's edict, but by his own real swords and guns.

Even if Emperor Hongzhi gave Shen Xi a high official position, if he was incapable, he would be constrained everywhere like when he first arrived in Guangzhou Mansion, and no one would obey him.

Even if the imperial court did not remove the word "southeast coast" from his official position, he relied on his own efforts to basically establish absolute authority in the three provinces, in fact, he did not need to be appointed by the imperial court, he was already the top military and administrative governor of the three provinces. However, with the appointment of the imperial court, he is more famous, and he can do whatever he wants in the three southeastern provinces, and even develop his power to Luzon, establish overseas colonies, or return Annam to the territory of the Ming Dynasty......

In the past, Shen Xi didn't have the authority to do it, but now that he has the permission, he can plan what to do first and what to do later. Obviously, the pacification of the pirates and pirates is the first priority at the moment, and everything else must be conceded, but it is urgent to establish their own power in the three southeastern provinces.

Shen Xi is ready to win over a group of officials in the officialdom, and Hui Niang and Li Jin's business territory must also be arranged.

Hui Niang and Li Jin's business, centered in Guangzhou and extending to the three southeastern provinces, and there is also the Fujian Chamber of Commerce rebuilt by Song Xiaocheng in Fuzhou, which can all be supported by policies.

Not only Shen Xi's own business, but also the business of local merchants was also protected by the governor's yamen, and Shen Xi began to vigorously encourage the development of commerce, and commerce was no longer a cheap industry that competed with the people for profits and opposed to the government, and the local government could no longer make it difficult for businessmen.

Even the Franco-Robot can join in the cake split.

Shen Xi sent Tang Yin to Qiongzhou Mansion as part of his expansion of power.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, Shen Xi personally sent Tang Yin and his wife on the road, and Tang Yin, as a special envoy, will stay in Qiongzhou Mansion for about half a year.

In Shen Xi's view, his layout in the three southeastern provinces has been launched, and the most critical point now is to demand stability and not let political enemies catch him.

He is now promoted to "get rich", but wealth is not for enjoyment, but to accumulate capital for future officialdom promotion.

Whether it is raising troops or administering to the people, they need the support of strong financial resources.

The political envoys headed by Lu Heng, as well as the political envoys of Fujian and Guizhou provinces, began to transport money and grain to Guangzhou Prefecture, and after Shen Xi disbanded his troops and horses at the end of the year, he would begin to reassemble in mid-February, and he set the date of sending troops to the north to pacify the pirates and pirates on the sixth day of the first month of March.

In Shen Xi's plan, the dispatch would take about three months, and the campaign would end in early June, when it would return directly to Fuzhou instead of Guangzhou.

Shen Xi did not ask for a single quell of all the pirates and pirates on the southeast coast, mainly to make a noise, so that the pirates and pirates could see the determination of the imperial court to pacify the sea frontier, and also give the people along the coast of the Ming Dynasty a bright future. (To be continued.) )